It is with great sorrow I will be dropping Japanese 102 today. The simple of it is if I wake up dreading a part of my day, I should do what I have to in order to alleviate that. Recently, I’ve been not wanting to go to class.<br/><br/>At 5 credits, I’m forced to devote just about 10 hours a week to the class, which also cost me $500, grossly screws up my daily schedule, and the material of which isn’t of too much use; I won’t have anyone to speak Japanese to when I’m through with the next two semesters… I’ll surely lose it all rather quickly.<br/><br/>So I’m bowing out. Will leave me more time to devote to my running (no more running to work in the mornings and dealing with having outfits ready for me there), more time for work (my mind hasn’t been able to focus 100% for a while with homework and class looming over me), more time to family, more time to reading (I have about 20 books on backlog), more time for travel (I can now fly to England with Caitlin and work there for the week for a change of scenery), more time for plain old regular life (video games, doing the dozen or so repairs I need to do to my cars, etc). I do have free time already, but it’s so few and far between I have no desire to fill it with chores around the house and such; I’m left running around with my head cut off to fit everything in, and surely I’m not getting it all in.<br/><br/>So my goal of learning Japanese will likely go back to Spanish. Even after 201, I still wouldn’t be fluent, and I’d have a heck of a time continuing my education and actually using it. Spanish? Much easier to learn on my own, and much more useful day-to-day. I think I’ll get started on it this Winter.<br/>